Oncology & Hematology Coding Alert
Keep Tabs on This ESA Timeline
Published on Mon Apr 20, 2009
-ESA treatment duration for each course of chemotherapy includes the 8 weeks following the final dose of myelosuppressive chemotherapy in a chemotherapy regimen,- according to the ESA NCD (110.21).
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